We have never been to the Big Apple and finally want to go there now!

MITTENDRIN leben e.V. is an association that cares for people suffering from psychiatric disorders. 6 of our clients’ biggest dream is to travel to the USA just once in their life time. But they unfortunately cannot manage to go on this trip by themselves. This is why we would like to give them the opportunity to fulfil their dream and accompany them to New York. 

The original idea arose at the end of last year, when a few clients, independently of each other, voiced the desire to travel, just once in their life, to the USA. A dream that seemed impossible for them to fulfil, due to their handicap, the language barrier as well as their anxieties. Thus, the idea became a plan to go on a supervised trip together. 

A strategy and a timetable were drawn up together with the employees and the management. A flight, for both clients and carers, to New York is scheduled for September 2017. We are planning on visiting all the sights that feature in various films that are set in New York as well as all of the ones that come immediately to mind when one thinks of the great metropolis that is New York.

A few arrangements have already been made. The clients are saving as much money as they can afford of their social welfare payments each month. Most of the clients, who want to go on the trip together are being looked after in the daily care centre of the association and so they already organized a few donation campaigns together. One of them was a Christmas biscuit and gingerbread house sale, out of homemade products and another was a second-hand stall, where they sold their own personal belongings as well as some of the products that they produced in the daily care centre.

Even though they make such a great effort, the amount raised so far is by no means sufficient to cover their flight and accommodation. Never mind the costs they will face in New York for things like food or entrance fees. Even pocket money for souvenirs must be secured.